LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 719, 5 March 1853, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[From the Melbourne Papers, per “Kirkwood.”]

The Court was at Windsor. A Cabinet Council was held on November 13th, which sat for two horn's and a-half. Prince Albert has been installed Master of Trinity House, in the room of the late Duke. - The last vestiges of the Great Exhibition have been erased from Hyde Park, and the ground ploughed and sowed with grass seed. The Funds, Nov. 13. — The English funds remained without the slightest alteration. Consuls were quoted throughout the day 100$ to £ for money ; and 100| to $ for account. Bank stock closed at 223 to 224 ; Reduced 99$ to |; Three and a quarter per cents. 102$ to 103. The official order appoints that on the evening of the 17th November, the remains of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G., will be removed, under an escort of cavalry, from the Hall of Chelsea Hospital to the Audience Hoorn of the Horse Guards, and on the following morning, at half-past seven o’clock, the procession' having been formed in St. James’s Park, will proceed up Constitution Hill, through Piccadilly, by St. James’s-street, along Pall-mall, Cockspurstreet, Charing Cross, and the Strand, to Temple Bar, and thence to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. The order also appoints, that the part of the service before the interment and the anthem being performed, the body will be deposited in the vault, and, the service being ended, Garter will proclaim the style, and the comptroller of the deceased, breaking his staff, will give the pieces to Garter, by whom they will be deposited in the grave. The pall-bearers were to be :—General Viscount Combenffere, G.C.8., and G.C.11.; General Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B. and G.C.H.; General Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8.; Lieut.-General Lord Seaton, G.C.8., G.C., M.G., and G.C.H., &c.; Lieut.-General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., &c. ; Lieut.-General Sir Charles J. Napier, G.C.8.; Lieut.-General Sir J. L, Lnshington, G.C.8.; Lieut.-General Sir G. Pollock, G.C.8.; Major-General Sir Harry G. W. Smith, Bart., G.C.B. The procession of the funeral would be three miles long, and include about 10,000 men and 3000 carriages, and about 17,000 persons were to be in St. Paul’s to witness the ceremony. While the body of the Duke was lying in state In Chelsea Hospital, a frightful catastrophe occurred. At an early hour of the first day of the ceremony, an immense crowd filled up the approaches to the Hospital, and ait hour before the door was opened, the pressure was so terrible that several women were crushed to death, and great numbers were seriously injured. The Times warns the authorities against the possibility of a similar calamity at the funeral. A Funeral Ode. on the death of the Duke of Wellington has been written by Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate.

Considerable excitement has prevailed in London on account of the Lord Mayor asserting his right of precedency to all, save the Sovereign, when within the city walls, and whether he should precede the Prince Consort at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington ; and the following document has been referred to, in reference to the funeral of Lord Nelson, and was expected to form ix precedent on the occasion under dispute : “ ‘ George R.—Whereas doubts have arisen concerning the place of our Lord Mayor of the City of London in the procession from Templebar to our cathedral church of St. Paul, on occasion t)f the interment of Horatio, late Viscount Nelson ; and whereas it has been humbly represented to us on the part of the Lord Mayor of our City of London, that in all ceremonies and processions whereat we are present' within the City of London, it appears to have been the custom for the Lord Mayor, hearing the City sword, •to take his station in the procession next to ourselves ; and whereas it hath been moreover humbly represented to us on the part of the Lord Mayor, that in all commissions of gaol delivery fur the City of London and county of Middlesex he is receivediirst by us, and before our Lord Chancellor, judges, and all other persons named therein; and whereas our officers ot arms having, in obedience to the directions of our Earl Marshal, made search for precedents on the subjest of the claim of the Lord Mayor of London to precedency above all subjects whatever in our absence in processions within the city of London, and that upon examination hitherto made by them of the records in our college, they have not found any precedent to justify the said claim ; and whereas the time will not admit of so complete an investigation of the Lord Mayor’s claim of precedency as might lead to a final adjudication of the same, it is our Royal will and pleasure that our Garter Principal King of Arms do on the present occasion •marshal and place the Lord Mayor of London in the same situation wherein he would have been placed if he had been present bearing the City sword. Provided nevertheless, that this declaration of our pleasure be for this special occasion only, and not construed into a precedent for the future, to the prejudice of the rights and precedency of any person or persons whatever, “ * By his Majesty’s command, given at our court of St. James’s, the Oth day of January, 1800, in the fOth year of our reign. (Signed) Hawkksbury.’”

Emigration from the quays of Waterford alone avi r "> last-three months 500 per week ; 332 ve'/ei/beiongtßg W tIW, Va|W Kwg'lom cleared out from British ports with emigrants, between the Ist January and i-sth June besides numerous foreign vessels. The Times thus writes of the amazing outflow .of emigration; —“The great question is, how long this drainxould be continued I We Coil only say, that there appears as yet no s>>n whatever of -cessation or abatement. There is°no doubt but .that more people left the country in October than left it in September, and as little that more are .departing in this present month than departed in October. . Only the other day we published a notification that the Government Emigration Commissioners, having fixed on Southampton as a depot, had stipulated for the construction of a species ol kamicoun at each terminus of the South

Western Railway, capable of containing two thousand emigrants, who were to he cleared off with extraordinary facility and quickness, and replaced by fresh claimants for a passage. The opening, of the new year, according to the announcement, was expected to communicate a strong additional impulse to the traffic ; and as ■ Australia will at least take all we can send, it is hard to fix any limit to the displacement. The effects, indeed, are already felt in almost every branch of every day business, and the experience of, another year under these strange conditions will go far to teach us how soon what is now relief may assume the character of exhaustion. As many men are not employed in the army, navy, and militia, all taken together as are now leaving England every six months. A remarkable feature of the event is the diversion of the emigrating stream from the westward to the southward. The population of the American Union is likely to suffer in proportion as what may be some day a New Union is lately to gain. As yet the attractions, principally, no doubt, through family ties, of the United States still preponderate, and they received 62,579 emigrants out of the 109,230, These, however, were mainly from the port of Liverpool, and the exportations from this quarter consists chiefly of Irish. When we turn to London, which sent forth, 21,788, it appears that Australia was the destination of no fewer than 13,956 of the number, and we may reckon, perhaps, on at least a corresponding proportion of the 3125 who sailed from Plymouth. The effect of the diversion will tell also upon ourselves in the differences of classes which will be allured by the difference of attraction. The rush to Australia is not constituted by the impulses of famine, wretchedness, and despair. It arises from a deliberate preference of one field to another, and we should probably not be long In concluding that at least one-half of the 15,000 persons who last quarter left London for the gold-fields had already a position more or less settled of their own. Many large establishments are now, in fact, like regiments after a battle, with young hands promoted to the duties of seniors, and vacancies in abundance still. No man can pretend to conjecture where this will end. At every turn and in every department of life we shall encounter the results of a revolution which is almost converting an old country into a young one, which tends to depress capital and to elevate labour, which will put prices at’h discount and candidates at a premium, which will abolish the burden of pauperism, extinguish the springs of Socialism, and open fair avenues of advancement to all the middle classes of society. Even if the stream should continue running but for two years longer it will probably deprive Great Britain of at least a million grown up men, and will create a chasm in the population which ten years of subsequent progress will not fill.”

The Church of England is strongly agitated by the fact that Convocation has actually assembled and proceeded to business, in spite of the repeated denials of the Government that such should be the case. Convocation has met: it has proceeded to consider several important questions, some of which have been referred io a standing Committee of the Lower House; it has received petitions in large numbers, debates of some hours duration have taken place, and an address to the Crown has been under deliberation. These proceedings indicate an approaching conflict between the Church and the State.

It was reported that Mr. John Marshall Prome Dean of Faculty, would succeed to the vacancy on the Scotch bench, caused by the resignation of Lord Medwyn. Captain Laffan has been elected M.P. for St. Ives. He is succeeded in his office of Government Inspector of Railroads by Captain Gallon. Upwards of 1000 J. have been distributed by the United Service Birkenhead Fund, for the relief of 188 persons of both services, including upwards of 100 of the relatives of soldiers on board at the time.

London was full of visitors, almost as much so as during the Exhibition ; and business was good. The sentence of death passed upon Mr. Murray, at Rome, has been commuted to transportation for life. The Small pox was raging with great virulence in the lonian Islands.

A revolt has broken out in Syria and Mesopotamia. The Arab tribes are pursuing a system of pillage on the largest scale. Caravans are robbed, and one English vessel was stopped at Bussora, but given up at the remonstrance of the British Consul. The advices from Jamaica were to the middle of October. Floods of great force had done much damage there; and in the islands of Martinique and Guadalope a great number of people had died from a species of malignant African fever thatbaffled all medical skill The Dascombe nugget, weighing 830 oz. 16 dvvts., was sold by auction in London, on the Bth November, for 1500 L» Three men were killed in London by the foul air issuing from a drain they were repairing in Goswell Road. Mr. Macaulay’s health is restored. He visited his constituents at Edinburgh, and made a brilliant speech on the 2nd November. Her Majesty has made ample provision for the two domestics of the late Mr. Neild, out of the 500,000 left her by that gentleman. The person who lately murdered the Baroness de Sehimmelpennizek, in Prussian Silesia, has been arrested.

The great Free-Trade Banquet was held at Manchester on the 2nd Nov. Mr. G. Wilson was in the chair, and Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gibson, and other celebrities, were present and the usual amount of able speaking and enthusiasm was exhibited.

The telegraph between Cornhill, London, and Paris is complete, and despatches are transmitted at the, rate of forty-eight words to a minute. The King of Sweden was seriously ill. A regency was appointed ad interim. The Patent Fire-Annihilator works at Battcr-sea-Fields were destroyed by fire, and one life lost.

A fire occurred at Konisberg which destroyed proper ty to the amount of 700,000 thalers. Sixteen petitions were to be presented to Parliament against the Irish returns, and those for the boroughs of Hull and Malden, in England, were also petitioned against. Great floods from heavy rains and a rise in the Severn had taken place in the North and West of England. A fine course of eruptions of Etna occurred during the autumn. The last was on the 20th October, and was accompanied by loud reports and streams of lava. Mr. Hcngerford Colston, a Magistrate and deputy Lieutenant of Somerset, was accidentally shot while sporting, by his friend Mr. R. C. Tudway, the newly elected member for Wells. IRELAND. The Criminal Courts were sitting. The At-torney-General applied in the Court of Queen’s Bench to have the proceedings arising out <' J? verdict of the jury in the Six- 1 " 11 __ - the forthwith quashed, - miie Bridge affair on both sides J ’ ~ hearing the arguments A true 1 , Bench deferred its judgment. : : ■'‘I 1 Ji 8 ? I)ecn f ouud a'rrdnst the editor ot die Amh-0el( newspaper, for a libel on the officers and men of ; ne silt M t Lite consecration of Dr. Dixon, as R. C. *rcl h bishop ot Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, took place at Maynooth on the 14th November. A terrific storm occurred in Dublin on the 18th November. r |Tie Kingstown Railway was inundated and also the low-lying parts of the city and suburbs. By the death of Colonel Bruen, the representation of Carlow county has become vacant. The Lord Advocate of Scotland, Mr Inglis, a zealous Derbyite, had issued his address to the eldlPtors of Lisburn. A strong opposition was expected/ * > ....

I A shock of earthquake was experienced along the coast of the Irish Channel. It is singular that, though the shock was perceived on both sides of the Channel, nothing of it was experienced on board ship. At Kingstown, and other places in the vicinity of Dublin, the vibration was felt. At Howth, a scientific gentleman dreamt that the end of the world had come, and, on awaking, found himself lying on the floor, having been pitched out of his bed. The writer of a letter, resident at Wicklow, says :—“The house rocked in a most fearful manner, the bed pitched like a ship a't sea, the clock stopped on the mantel-piece, jugs and basins danced a fearful jig.” Commencing from the shore of Dublin and Wicklow, and taking nearly a circular direction, the shock appears to have been sensibly felt as far as Gloucester.

Signs of the Times. —The following in an extract of a letter from the north -west coast of Scotland, dated 7th August, 1852 : —“ Mr. ■was the principal tenant of Colonel Gordon, in South Uist, but not being able to agree with the colonel he gave up his farm there a few mouths since, and is now settled in the county Mayo, where he has purchased some land and rents more, paying (he says) 9s. an acre for what would be worth two guineas in Scotland. He expresses himself much satisfied with his transition to Ireland, where, lie says, he finds the people, when properly treated, far more tractable, and industrious than his own countrymen, he being himself a Highlander; and from the great advantages offered hefpredicts a large emigration thither of substantial Scotch and, perhaps, English farmers. He said that he was lately one of a party of 24 at an ordinary dinner in the town of Ballina, all of whom where Scotch.” The Ballina union was one of the most distressed in Ireland at the time of the famine, but having gone through the process of emigration, consolidation of small holdings, and sale of encumbered estates quickest, it has recovered soonest. — Times. FRANCE. From France we learn that the restoration of the Empire was progressing. The Senate met on the 4th of November, Prince Jerome presiding. lie addressed them ; and then the Minister of state bnought up a brief message of Louis Napoleon. The In-other of Napoleon then left the chair, in which he was replaced by Mr. Mesnard. A report in favor of the empire was then read, after which the Senatus Consultant! was proposed. As a document of historical importance we give it verbatim : Art. 1. —The imperial dignity is re-established. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor, under the title of Napoleon 111. Art. 2.—The imperial dignity is hereafter in the direct and legitimate descendants of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, from male to male, by order of primogeniture, to the exclusion of females and their descendants.

Art. 3.—Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, if he has no male child, may adopt the legitimate children and descendants in the male line of the brothers of the Emperor Napoleon I. The forms of adoption are regulated by the Senatus Consultum, If, after this adoption, male children should be born to Louis Napoleon, his adopted children cannot he called on to succeed him until after his legitimate descendants. The adoption is interdicted to the successors of Louis Napoleon and their descendants.

Art. 4.—Louis Napoleon regulates, by an organic decree, addressed to the senate and deposited in its archives, the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family in case he should have no direct legitimate or adoptive heir. Art. o.—ln fault of legitimate or adoptive heirs of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in the collateral line, who shall derive their right in the abovementioned organic decree, a Senatus Consultum, proposed to the senate by the ministers formed into a Council of Government, united to the presidence of the senate of the Legislative Body and of the Council of State, and submitted to the acceptance of the people, names the Emperor, and regulates in his family from male to male to the' perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants. Until the moment when the election of the new Emperor is consummated, the affairs of state are governed by the ministers in olhcc, who shall form themselves into a Council of Government, and deliberate by a majority of votes.

Art. 6.—The members of the family of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, called eventually to the succession, and their descendants, of both sexes, form part of the Imperial family. A Senatus Consultum regulates their position. They cannot marry without the authorization of the Emperor. Their marriage without such authorization entails privation of all hereditary right as well for him who contracts it as for his descendants.

Art. 7. —The Constitution of the 15th of January, 1852, is maintained in all provisions which are not contrary to the present Senatus Consultum. There cannot be any modifications in it, except by the form and by the means therein prescribed. Art. B—The following proposition shall he presented to the acceptance of the French people in the terms determined by the decrees of the 2nd and 4th December, 1851 :—The people wish for the re-establishment of the Imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, with hereditary right to his direct descendants either legitimate or adopted ; and give him the right to regulate the order of succession of the Bonaparte family, ns provided for by the Senatus Consultum of November, 1852. On the 7th November it was put to the vote and carried by a majority of 8G votes out of 87. All signed their names to the documents afterwards, the whole Senate in full costume. The Cardinals in their red dresses, preceded by an escort, went to the palace of St. Cloud. M. Mesnard addressed the President, placing in his hands the Senatus Consultum, and adding ; “ Monseigneur, —When a great country like France makes its voice heard, the first duty of the political body to which she addresses herself, is, to listen and to reply. Such were the ideas of your Highness in calling for the meditation of the Senate in this vast movement of public opinion, which has manifested itself with so much ensemble and energy. The Senate has understood that this striking manifestation is justified at the same time by the immense services which yon have rendered, by the name you bear, and by the guarantees which are given to the future, by the greatness of your character, and by the wisdom and firmness of your mind. It has understood that after so many revolutions, France feels the want of putting her destinies under the shelter of a powerful and national government, which only holding to the past by the souvenir of her glory and the legitimacy of her origin, now again finds in popular saction, the elements of its force and its duration. The senate glories, Mouse’‘ > ~ in being the faithful — o-; clir > and sentiments x '' r .,«cx-s ot the wishes - v . mo country, in placing in your the Senatus Consultum which calls you to the empire.” All cried “ Vive I’Empereur” at the conclusion, and Louis Napoleon, who was surrounded by u brilliuut stuff* liiiusclt dicssed us a lieutenant general, replied : “ Messieurs les C.lauk the senatd for the readiness with which it has responded to the wishes of the country in deliberating on the of the empire, and ip drawing pp the Senatus Consultum which is to be submitted to the acceptance of the popple. When, forty-eight years since, in this Same palace, in tliis same room, and under analogous circumstances, the senate came to offer the crown to the chief of my family, the emperor replied by the memorable words’ ‘ My spirit will no longer be with my posterity from the day when it shall cease to merit the love and the confidence of the great nation.” What now most effects my heart is the thought that the spirit of the emperor is with me, that Jiis ideas guide me, that his shade

protects me, since by a solemn proceeding you come in the name of the French people to prove to me, that I have merited the confidence of the country. It is not necessary for me to tell you that my constant anxiety will he to labour with you to promote the grandeur and prosperity of France.”

The Senate shortly afterwards departed. A decree appeared the same day calling oil the people to vote aye and nay to the proposition, on the 21st and 22nd of November.

It is said that Prince Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte is to be made Viceroy of Algiers. The Count of Chambord has issued a manifesto, protesting against the re-establishment of the empire, and asserting his hereditary right to the throne of the French monarchy.